{"id":12185,"date":"2020-07-03T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12185"},"modified":"2020-07-01T01:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:26:24","slug":"the-great-interruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-great-interruption\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Interruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditions are still no match for the plague. The latest victims: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwbg.com\/2020\/06\/27\/chamber-announces-pufferbilly-days-cancellation\/\">Pufferbilly Days<\/a> in Boone and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kniakrls.com\/2020\/06\/30\/60th-nos-energy-drink-knoxville-nationals-presented-by-caseys-postponed-until-august-2021\/\">Knoxville Nationals<\/a>. But it&#8217;s not just the big stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look just in southern Benton County in the first half of 2018:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>February 11, Belle Plaine Knights of Columbus Pancake Breakfast<\/li>\n<li>February 25, Belle Plaine Lions Club Pancake Breakfast<\/li>\n<li>April 8, Van Horne First Responder Pancake Breakfast<\/li>\n<li>April 14, Blairstown Fire Department Spaghetti Dinner<\/li>\n<li>April 21, Keystone Fire Department Country Fried Steak Dinner<\/li>\n<li>June 10, Norway Fire Department Pancake Breakfast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of pancakes. But it&#8217;s also a lot of <em>money<\/em>. That&#8217;s money for either support of the entity putting it on or for some local group that may be reliant on it. <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/16643\">&#8220;Social capital&#8221; has been eroding for decades<\/a>, and having community-building events forcibly interrupted will have consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditions are still no match for the plague. The latest victims: Pufferbilly Days in Boone and the Knoxville Nationals. But it&#8217;s not just the big stuff. Let&#8217;s look just in southern Benton County in the first half of 2018: February &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-great-interruption\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12204,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12185\/revisions\/12204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}